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    When he removed his boots he discovered incipient frostbite on several toes.†  (source)
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    Looking at Louie, whose getaway speed was his saving grace, Pete thought he saw the same incipient talent.†  (source)
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    I will have to trust that there is enough incipient activity in and from the tesla trees even during the quiet periods.†  (source)
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    Let us hope that all her previous guilt may be attributed to the incipient workings of this frightful malady.†  (source)
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    YOU TAKE HIS HIGH STANDARDS FOR STORIES THAT ARE 'EXCEPTIONAL' AND YOU PUT THAT TOGETHER WITH HIS BELIEF THAT 'NOTHING BEARS OUT IN PRACTICE WHAT IT PROMISES INCIPIENTLY,' AND THERE'S YOUR THESIS!†  (source)
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    He made Kaethe Gregorovius feel charming, meanwhile becoming increasingly restless at the all-pervading cauliflower—simultaneously hating himself too for this incipience of he knew not what superficiality.†  (source)
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    The incipient panic that had started a few hours earlier had driven them to the brittle edge of riot.†  (source)
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    For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.†  (source)
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    The area was located in the San Gabriel Valley, which for years consisted of incipient industry, farmland and migrant camps until Los Angeles stretched out fingers of suburban sprawl to the furthest reaches of the valley.†  (source)
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    EVEN EARLY—WHEN HE WAS TRAVELING IN FRANCE, IN 1882—HE WROTE: 'SINCE I DISCOVERED SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THAT I WAS LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE NOTHING BEARS OUT IN PRACTICE WHAT IT PROMISES INCIPIENTLY, I HAVE TROUBLED MYSELF VERY LITTLE ABOUT THEORIES.†  (source)
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    Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.†  (source)
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    Whenever I think of Owen Meany's medal for heroism, I'm reminded of Thomas Hardy's diary entry in 1882—Owen showed it to me, that little bit about "living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently."†  (source)
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    'Let me go to bed, then,' answered the boy, shrinking from Catherine's salute; and he put his fingers to remove incipient tears.†  (source)
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